COVID surges in big Chinese cities

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Sinocism with the report. I except lockdown!


Cases continue to surge in Guangzhou and the daily new case count is approaching the level at which Shanghai shut down earlier this year, when the daily new cases crossed 4000. If the cases keep rising and the city does not go until full lockdown then perhaps that would be a sign the authorities are really moving towards a softening of Dynamic zero-Covid. Beijing cases are also increasing, as are cases in Chongqing. So three of the PRC’s largest and most important cities are now dealing with their worst outbreaks in months. As I asked on Monday, How will the more optimistic investors react if there is a large-scale lockdown in one of the tier-1 cities?

Beijing, Guangzhou airports see large-scale flight cancellations amid surge in COVID-19 cases nationwide – Global Times

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.